BREAKING: BCEHS will deploy it's first electric vehicles in FY 2022\23! This is a big win for paramedics A. Paramedics Of BC who have supported initiatives to see clean energy vehicles deployed where we work. Big kudos to those BC Emergency Health Services who lead and supported this deployment. 1/5

Instant easy save if you understand OMI, but incredibly dangerous if you only know STEMI. Readers of this blog will instantly understand this and save lives! Pendell Meyers hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2022/07/instan…

'The lifeboat is full': Canada's health-care system is failing. There is no easy solution - ⁦National Post⁩ ⁦@sharon_kirkey⁩ ⁦CAEP⁩ ⁦CJEM⁩ ⁦Canadian Medical Association⁩ ⁦@nb_docs⁩ ⁦Dr. Brian Goldman⁩ nationalpost.com/news/canada/th…

Coming home successfully is a skill. How do we successfully transition from working high-impact problem sets to being human at home with friends and family? It's not easy...I still have a lot to learn. Here's a snapshot of what I *do* know about coming home well. 🧵 ⬇️

Excellente entrevue avec Dr Gagnon qui parle de notre “déni collectif de la mort”. Il a bien raison. Aux urgences, des situations ou la fin de vie n’a pas été anticipée/discutée sont trop souvent rencontrées. C’est un poids énorme pour proches et soignants plus.lapresse.ca/screens/124ade…

"This is not my expertise" is not an admission of incompetence. It's an expression of self-awareness. The antidote to arrogance is not lowering your confidence. It's raising your humility. You don't have to deny your strengths. You just have to recognize your weaknesses.

Take note: pub'd online Oct 11 2022, ACC now is formally endorsing deWinter T waves, as well as modified Sgarbossa criteria for LBBB + pacemakers as "STEMI equivalents" and need for immediate angiography. At last! #foamed jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.10…

Here’s the proper article: 2022 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on the Evaluation and Disposition of Acute Chest Pain in the Emergency Department #foamed jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.…

Meanwhile…here in Ontario, we fax things in healthcare….🤦‍♂️

Les médecins d’urgence Américains soulignent la situation critique dans les urgences. Dans la section ‘background’, une analogie simplifiée qui permet de mieux comprendre ce qui survient quand une urgence déborde. AMUQ CAEP

Here’s a message that was sent to me by an ER resident physician in training who saved a patient’s life half way across the country from me. When people ask “why teach on social media?” This is why.

Merci de cet important rappel. Nous sommes encore trop souvent témoins de situations ou les gens manquent de respect envers les autres dans le milieu de travail. Ceci n’est pas acceptable même en ces temps difficiles.

For those contemplating a detox or cleanse in the new year, here’s a toxicologist’s explanation of how they work: They don’t.

Two 70 year olds with chest pain, and 3 pitfalls of the STEMI paradigm Jesse McLaren hqmeded-ecg.blogspot.com/2023/02/two-70…

Canadian In Situ Sim and EM communities : looking for rural or community EDs who conduct any kind of In situ simulation in their departments - for a research project aiming to identify keys & pearls to make In Situ Sim successful. Please share and reach out🙏 CAEP AMUQ

🧪Can you have a metabolic acidosis with a normal plasma bicarbonate? Lessons learned from a case 👇 #FOAMed #foamcc 1/

Paramedics aren’t ‘Ambulance Drivers’ but we DO drive an ambulance! PhD Candidate Lyle Brewster from Charles Sturt Uni is researching paramedic safety. Pls share this 10min survey ⁦⁦Brian Maguire⁩ ⁦McNally Project for Paramedicine Research⁩ ⁦Ray Bange OAM⁩ ⁦ research.net/r/Paramedic_Sa…

Here’s a very important #ECG of a 55 year old man who presented to the ER with chest pain What’s the diagnosis?

L'intelligence artificielle dans le domaine de la santé. Prudence. Jocelyn Gravel lapresse.ca/actualites/san…

Dizziness is a notoriously tricky chief complaint to work up in the ED. Let’s review one of the most up to date guidelines on how to approach it. 🧵 1/8 #MedEd